Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.

As at 28 February 2015, the number and proportion of civil servants working for Department of Energy & Climate Change had made diversity declarations as set out below:

(a) White or White British – 971 (62%);

(b) Asian or Asian British – 80 (5%);

(c) Black or Black British – 47 (3%);

(d) Mixed or multiple ethnic group – 28 (2%);

(e) Another ethnicity – less than 10 (less than 1%);

(f) People who prefer not to say or have made no declaration – 432 (27%).